Famous Celebrities and Their Daring R-Rated Movie Debuts

Meryl Streep

Streep’s debut R-rated film The Deer Hunter (1978) was an epic war drama starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage. Streep was already 28 at the time and the film marked her first Academy Award nomination ever. She would go on to become the most nominated film actress in history.

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The More You Know

  • Steven Spielberg pops up for a cameo in Vanilla Sky wearing a Pre-Crime baseball cap.
  • While filming Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren punched Sylvester Stallone's chest so hard, his heart slammed against his breastbone, causing it to swell and his systolic blood pressure shot to over 200. Filming was halted as Stallone was flown to a nearby hospital and spent eight days in intensive care.
  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
  • Enya was James Cameron’s first choice to compose the music for Titanic.
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